Bung-extractor.



GUSTAV SIANNAGEL, OF LIMA, OHIO.

BUNGr-EXTRACTOB.

$pecication of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 190s. I

Appucauon mea my 3, 190e. serial No. 324,629.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GUsTAv SPANNAGEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lima, in the county,of Allen and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Im- I provements inBung-Extractors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.v

The object of this invention is to 4provide an instrument to facilitatethe removal of bungs from barrels.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described andclaimed, the` invention, in its practical embodiment, not beingconfinedto the exact exemplification appearing in the 'accompanyingdrawings.

In said drawings-Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, the staff beingpartially broken out, and Fig. 2 is a detail in section on a largerscale.

In the lviews l designates the staff. This is conveniently of tubularform and is provided with an enlarged externally threaded .portion la.at its lower end. AThreaded onto the portion lat is a chamber piece 2which contains an electric-lamp socket device 3 of ordinary or suitableconstruction.

4 designates an incandescent electric lamp which preferably removablyengages the socket 3. Between the socket and the lamp I lace a cushion 5of rubber or other suit'- ablle material to prevent fracture of the lampwhen the device is used.

The lower end of the chamber piece 2 is externally threaded, and ontothis I thread a collar 6 having a caging or o en work 7 and a spike 8.The 4lamp is co ned within the caging and thereby protected from injurywithout materially interfering with the illu-v minating function of thelamp.`

It will be 'observed that, by the construction as described, the lamplies in a line passing through axes of the staH and spike, and that theshock of the blows given the spike is transmitted through the caging andaround the cushioned lamp. By this construction the device can be madeof sufficient size and weight tobe eective in the destruction of bungsand at the same time sufliciently slender to pass through and beoperative beyond the ordinary bung hole.

The wires 9 for conducting the electricity to the lamp are convenientlypassed down through the tubular staff and therefore do not interferewith the proper handling of the instrument.

As the device will have considerabley weight it will be convenientin'practice to provide it With a counterbalancing weight, and the cord1() to which this weight is to be attached, and a fraction only of whichis shown, is passedover a pulley arranged at a suitable height.

In use the spike end of the device is inserted through the bung holeinto the barrel and the spike used first to split the bung into pieces,after which the pieces are readily removed through the bung hole by themon the end of the spike. The lamp affords all the necessary light toilluminate the interior of the barrel for properly directing the spikewhen in the hands of the workman.

j To replace an exhausted lamp it is only necessary to remove the parts6, 7 and 8,'

imp aling which are shown to be one structure, after which the worn-outlamp can be removed and a new one supplied.

What I claim and desire to secure by Iletters Patent is:

1. An instrument for the removal of bungs from barrels comprising, incombination, a staff, means for attaching an electric lamp to saidstaff, a lamp, an inclosing caging for protecting the lamp, a spikebeyond the caging, the lamp being between the staff and the spike andlying within the line of the axes of the staff and spike, and means forconducting electricity to the lam 2. An instrument for the removal ofbungs from barrels comprising, in combination, a staff, means forattaching an electric lamp to said staff, a lamp, a cushioning supportfor said lamp, an inclosing caging for pro-- 8. An instrument for theremoval of bungs through the axes ol the stall and spike, and 10 frombarrels comprising, 1n combination, a conductors of electricity7 i'orsind lzunp.

staff having a chamber piece at its lower end, a lamp socket in saidchamber piece, an electric lamp detschably connected to said socket, astructure comprising a collar, s caging for the lamp and a spike ada tedto be removably attached to said clliainber piece, the lzunp lying in aline passing In testimony whereof l nl'i'x my signature,

in presence of two witnesses.

A. S. GRAHAM, CHAs. GUsTwlLLER.

